1st Edition
Knock on Wood Nature as Commodity in Douglas-Fir Country
By W. Scott Prudham
Copyright 2005
272 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Prudham employs a political economic approach to explain the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry's presence in the region. As well, he provides a thorough accounting of the timber industry itself, tracing its motivations, practices, and labor relations.
Acknowledgments 1 The Political Economy of an Ecological Crisis 2 Working the Land: Production Relations in Logging and Reforestation 3 Industrial Ecologies and Regional Geographies 4 Geographies of Scale and Scope in Lumbering 5 Toward Organic Machines: The Historical Political Economy of Douglas-Fir Tree Improvement 6 Timber and Down: The Rise and Fall of Sustained Yield Regulation in Oregon's Illinois Valley 7 Epilogue: Owls, Ecosystems, and the New Forestry
Biography
Scott Prudham is an assistant professor in the geography department at the University of Toronto.
'An exemplary and agenda-setting contribution to First World political ecology. There is arguably no other existing book in the subfield that works at so many levels' - Noel Castree, Manchester University
